My first decree: Naked avatars for everyone.

stuff.

Good Stuff.

#9 was probably not needed but would be nice. The rest was great. Make highsec smaller. take l4 agents out of it!

I'll bite:

If I had complete control of the development and direction of ccp/new eden, this is a small list of what I would have done:

1) Green light Legion

2) Take a fine tooth comb to eve and gather a list of all the old systems that need to fixed and or replaced and or finished. As well as all the old single thread code areas, and areas of stagnintation that could use a refresh. Figure out how long it would take to do a complete rewrite.

3) Set aside the amount of people and teams I would need to do a full rewrite as fast as possible. If it will take 2 years i'd try to get it to one, but I would have a set decidcaded just to this task.

4) everyone else would 'bridge' eve 1 to eve 2. I.e. all expantions would be fixes for the foreseeable future, and I would add little things just to keep players happy.

5) Eve v 2 would have valk an legion integrated from day one.

6) once the rewrite was complete, i'd have one more small expansion... then announce the rewrite and show it all off, completed.

Then launch...

if this was successful, i'd restart WoD development, but keep it on a strict time table and feature list. Because I do not believe in having all my eggs in one basket.

I would close down EvE, this would be the ultimate expression of griefing as a play style.

I would close down EvE, this would be the ultimate expression of griefing as a play style.

Create a fully-fledged pve version of Eve

Create a fully-fledged pve version of Eve

Long stuff.

1. Station Lock-out mechanics would be removed from Faction Warfare. Completely.

2a. All empire high-sec would be separated by low-sec.
2b. More low-sec systems and high-to-low stargates would be added... preventing too many chokepoints from forming.

3. Supercapitals would be banned from low-sec.

4. Cynos can only be used by "specialty" ships (see: ships with a bonus towards cynos).

5. War declaration mechanics would be revamped.
--- a. It would be cheaper to declare war on a corporation/alliance bigger than yours.
--- b. Defending corp/alliances can add an infinite amount allies to the war at no additional cost/penalty.
--- c. No one may join or drop from either the offending or defending corporation during the duration of the war. edit: You cannot disband the corp/alliance either.

6. The New Player Experience will be revamped.
--- a. Less expositories and detailed mechanical information... more "guidelines to live by."
--- b. Optional voice tutorial. Keep things brief so they can be easily cycled through.
--- c. Create missions that more or less simulate what happens in EVE and have a pop-up explaining what happened right after it happens. (example: one mission gives the newbie a cheap ship and, upon undocking, have NPCs "suicide gank" the newbie... then a pop-up appears and explains what suicide ganking is and some tips to avoid it).

7a. Priority would be given to overcoming to technical hurdles on making Warfare Links on-grid only.
7b. A new destroyer-sized command ship will be introduced to appease the skirmishers, small gangs, and poor people. This ship can only fit 1 link though.

8a. If Walking in Station is introduced, the security mechanics will emulate that of high, low, and null security. That means that people can indeed be ganked and lose all their implants in a station... and no, it will not be "griefing" (unless the gankers focus all their efforts on one person over and over again).
8b. You will only be truly safe in the Captains Quarters.
8c. No, you cannot bring people into your Captains Quarters. You want to be social? Go out and risk getting stabbed.

9. Space will have some random localized effects here and there... which will mostly be slight and largely ignoreable.
Example 1: Stars deal omni-damage to anyone close by... enough damage to make small ships panic but not enough to kill them outright.
Example 2: Being near a planet reduces agility/max speed by 2% or something.
Example 3: Being in an asteroid belt deals 1% damage (based on raw HP, not EHP) to a ship regardless of size... ore ships will be exempt from this.

I am king.

Eve is a place where you can slither down the mangus tubes to the lair of the drilge tank and lie in the succulent membrane folds and have your reality feelers scraped by the instruction pointer.

Where do YOU want to take EVE?

I want to take EVE to work and not get fired for it. Plenty of you seem to have the secret for that. Do tell.

Mr Epeen

Remove highsec and lowsec, remove ~1/2 the jump gates in the game (islands and bottlenecks). No more concord or security standings. Let alliances set penalties for attacking fellow alliance pilots, as well as treaties with other alliances which could hold penalties to their choosing if they wish. I'd rather see it function in a more true sandbox environment where players write the rules.

Yeah, I saw this other thread - where is EVE going to go? Pok says EVE goes where WE take it. So, I'm asking YOU:



Now, this isn't your immediate plans as a player. This is more like, "If I was KING, EVE would be..."

There's a lot of talk about the present circumstance of huge tracts of null sec held by one interest and rented out to smaller ones. Some don't like this. Some do. Some don't care either way. There WAS the legendary era of Band of Brothers (BoB, maybe you've heard) holding a HUGE chunk of null sec, and squeezing everybody else into a measly corner. What other castles can we build in this sandbox?

For ME? I'd like to get an alliance rolling that manufactures and markets, does incursions and participates in faction warfare. We'd mind our own business and get good at what we do. Should someone come along and try to interfere with that, we'd do what has to be done. Does it call for growth, or expansion. It might. And, we'd certainly need to be up to the challenge.

Maybe your idea doesn't involve null sec at all. Maybe it's a low sec Shangra-La you want. Maybe high sec is your hometown.

What's your idea?

9 - totally ban ISBoxer.

Where do YOU want to take EVE?